Lisbon - Praça da Alegria

A circular park, dedicated to the artist Alfredo Keil (1850-1907), has been laid out on the small Praça da Alegria, which is located behind the row of houses on the Avenida da Liberdade. The bronze bust, placed there in 1957, was created by Teixeira Lopes, a sculptor famous in Portugal. Alfredo Keil was a painter, writer and, above all, a composer. His opera "A Serrana" ("The Girl from the Mountains") is generally considered to be Portugal's national opera and his song "A Portuguesa" ("The Girl from Portugal") was declared the national anthem of the Portuguese Republic in 1911.